Palm. A piece of leather fitted over the hand, with an iron for the head of a needle to press against in sewing upon canvass. Also, the fluke of an anchor.
Panch. (See Paunch.)
Parbuckle. To hoist or lower a spar or cask by single ropes passed round it.
Parcel. (See page 44.) To wind tarred canvass, (called parcelling,) round a rope.
Parcelling. (See Parcel.)
Parliament-heel. The situation of a vessel when she is careened.
Parral. The rope by which a yard is confined to a mast at its centre.
Part. To break a rope.
Partners. A frame-work of short timber fitted to the hole in a deck, to receive the heel of a mast or pump, &c.
Pazaree. A rope attached to the clew of the foresail and rove through a block on the swinging boom. Used for guying the clews out when before the wind.